In the Workshop

Luckily, as an architecture student, I have access to a fairly well equipped workshop with routers, planers,  pillar drills and a big table saw.
First things first, get a nice smooth edge on the wood. This is important as it's going to be laminated to itself and the rougher the surface the worse it will stick.
So i put the wood through the planer, shaving 0.5mm with every pass until it was smooth.

After this, my timber was 100mmx 26mm.
Next to the table saw. I cut the timber into 20mm planks, giving me 4 complete planks and one off cut.

The next step is lamination. For this I will use PVA glue, for reasons i will explain tomorrow, and a series of G clamps.
Sadly, the workshop closes at 5 so my working day is rather limited.

GF